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Sunday, December 27, 2015

Know what you are chanting

Essential Services of the Lotus Sutra

Note... Must chant Parts A and C or Parts A, B, and C twice a day. May also chant any or all parts as many times as one wishes. I chant mostly in the Japanese but either English or Japanese is acceptable. To be chanted outloud.

Essential Services Auxilliary Practice [Part A Hoben-pon]

Part A

Myo-ho Ren-ge Kyo

Sublime Dharma of the Lotus Flower Sutra

Ho-ben-pon Dai-ni

Chapter Two, Expedient Means

Ni-ji Se-son

At the time the World Honored One peacefully and

Ju san-mai an-jo no ki

quietly arose from Samadhi and annonced to

Go Shari-hotsu Sho-but-chi-e

Shariputra, "The Wisdom of the Buddhas is Most Profound

jin jin mu-ryo Go chi-e mon

and immeasurable. The Gate of Their Wisdom is difficult to

nan-ge nan-nyo is-sai sho-mon

understand and difficult to enter. It is something that none

byaku-shi-butsu sho fu no chi

of the Shravakas and Pratyekabuddhas can understand

Sho I sha ga

What is the reason?

Butsu zo shin-gon hyaku

The Buddha formerly approached hundreds of thousands

sen man-noku mu-shu sho-butsu

of myriads of tens of millions of numberless Buddhas

Jingyo sho-butsu

exhaustively practiced

mu-ryo do-ho

the immeasurable Dharma Paths of the Buddhas,

Yu-myo sho-jin

being bold and effortful,

Myo-sho fu mon

and His Renown was Universally Heard.

Jo-ju jin jin mi zo u ho

It is difficult to understand the import of what He, having

Zui gi sho setsu

achieved the Most Profound, Unprecedented Dharma,

I-shu nan-ge

has preached following what is appropriate.

Shari-hotsu. Go ju jo butsu i rai

Shariputra. Since I attained Buddhahood, I have by

Shu-ju in-nen shu-ju hi-yu

various sorts of causes and conditions and various sorts of

Ko-en Gon-kyo

parables widely expounded the teaching expressed in

Mu-shu ho-ben

words, and by numberless expedients

In-do shu-jo

I have guided the masses of beings,

Ryo-re sho-jaku

causing them to leave attatchments.

shi i sha ga Nyo-rai

What is the reason? The Tathagata

ho-ben chi-ken hara-mitsu

is fully possesses of all the

Kai i gu-soku

Paramitas of Knowledge and Vision and of expedience

Shari-hotsu. Nyo-rai chi-ken

Shariputra. The Knowledge and Vision of the Tathagata

Ko dai jin-mon

is vast and great, profound and far-reaching.

Mu-ryo mu-ge riki

Having the Immeasurable, the Unhindered, the Powers,

Mu sho i zen-jo ge-das-sam-mai

Fearlessness, Trance, Liberation, and Samadhi,

jin nyu musai He has profoundly entered the Unbounded.

Jo-ju is-sai mi zo u ho

He has achieved all the Unprecedented Dharmas.

Shari-hotsu. Nyo-rai

Shariputra. The Tathagata

no shu-ju fum-betsu

can variously assign

gyo setsu sho-ho

and skillfully preach the various dharmas,

Gon-ji nyu-nan

with words that are gentle and soft,

Ek-ka shu shin

causing the mass of minds to rejoice.

Shari-hotsu. shu yo gon shi

Shariputra. If we speak of it in essence, it is all

Mu-ryo mu-hen mi zo u ho

of the immeasurable, unlimited, unprecedented dharmas

Bus-shitsu jo-ju Shi. Sharihotsu.

that the Buddha has achieved. I will stop. Shariputra.

Fu shu bu setsu Shi i sha ga.

I should not preach any further. What is the reason?

Bus-sho jo-ju

That which the Buddha has achieved

Dai-ichi ke u nan-ge shi-ho

Is the rarest, difficult to understand Dharma.

Yui Butsu yo Butsu

Only a Buddha with a Buddha

Nan no ku-jin

can exhaustively penetrate

sho-ho jis-so

the Reality of the Dharmas.

[Sho i sho-ho

That is to say, the various Dharmas

Nyo ze so. Nyo ze sho. Nyo ze tai.

are Thus the Appearance, Thus the Nature, Thus the Essence,

Nyo ze riki. Nyo ze sa. Nyo ze in

Thus the Power, Thus the Action, Thus the Cause,

Nyo ze en. Nyo ze ka. Nyo ze ho.

Thus the Condition. Thus the the Effect. Thus the Retribution

Nyo ze hom-matsu ku kyo to.]

and Thus the Ultimate Equality of the Original and the last." [From Sho i sho-ho, to hom-matsu ku kyo to, it is repeated three times.]